My current paintings exist in an area between maps, landscapes and figuration, and embrace ideas of cartography, spirited exploration and unfettered imagination. Through these artworks, I am attempting to process our history of
colonialism while wrestling with evolving definitions of masculinity. The 'Island' is a framework within which a painted world can be imagined and constructed.

I have always been enamored with maps, and I find the practice of cartography and its history fascinating. Mapping is not only a method of understanding the time and space around us, but also abstract, conceptual, technological, political and philosophical systems. Even our own personal psychologies can be illustrated as maps. Equally as beautiful are maps invented as fictions. For example, the fantastical maps created by J.R.R. Tolkien as addendums to his literary universe are wonderful elements that elevate the experience of the reader, and are a necessary and inseparable aspect of the novels. Personally, I have fond memories of road trips in my youth, with images of the landscapes as vivid in my mind as the oversized road atlases strewn across the seats.

Bradley Biancardi (b.1977, Chicago) has exhibited his work at my pet ram, eyes never sleep, PLATFORM:, Freight+Volume, Arts+Leisure, Thierry Goldberg, Fresh Window, and BravinLee Programs in NYC; Johalla Projects, Devening Projects+Editions, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, and the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago; Galleri Urbane in Dallas, and Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, among others. Biancardi is represented in Texas by Galleri Urbane and has participated in several group exhibitions and art fairs with the gallery. He will have a solo exhibition with the gallery
in April of 2027. Biancardi has participated in artist residencies at Yaddo, DNA, The Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works,
the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Religare Arts Initiative in New Delhi. He has lectured as a Visiting Artist at the College
of St. Rose, Yale School of Art, Columbia University, Indiana University, and the University of Chicago among others. His work has been noted in the publications Hyperallergic, ArtMaze Mag, New American Paintings, Bad At Sports, and Newcity, among others. Biancardi lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.